Call for papers

Electromagnetic radiation is present everywhere in today's world. All the internet connections are becoming wireless. All telephonic conversations are getting mobile. Most of electronic devices today are wireless. In all wireless and mobile communications or devices, signals are sent from the transmitter and receiver receives those signals. So these signals are present everywhere. Sometimes they interfere with other electronic devices (there arises the issue of EMI/EMC) and it is a form of radiation for us (albeit most of the cases it is in negligible amount). In some rare cases, they do affect us. In this special issue we will try to elucidate some of these issues. Topics of general interest but not limited to those listed
below:
- Mobile phone and health issues
- Mobile phone and human body interaction
- Specific absorption rate (SAR) calculation using Finite-Difference Time
- Domain (FDTD) method and SAR values of some commonly used mobile phones
- SAR reduction using Electromagnetic Band Gap structures
- SAR reduction using metamaterials
- Hyperthermia for curing cancer
- Electromagnetic interference (EMI)/ Electromagnetic compatibilty (EMC)
- Biological effects of microwave or electromagnetic radiation
- FDTD or Method of Moments (MoM) model of human head
- Any other topic related to bio-electromagnetics


Important Dates:

Submission: September 1, 2009
First Acceptance: November 1, 2009
Final submission: January 1, 2010
Publication date: March, 2010


Guest Editor:

Dr. R.S. Kshetrimayum
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Electronics and Communications Engineering Department
Guwahati 781039
INDIA
krs@iitg.ernet.in


IJBST Manuscript formatting

Manuscripts are invited conforming to manuscript formatting guidelines.
Double Column text, except wherever a large figure has to be formatted as a single column. Except otherwise specified, manuscript text will conform to Tahoma 10, 1.05 multiple line spacing
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Equations need to left aligned; equation numbers should be right aligned; equations quoted in manuscript need to conform to this form. (Eqn. 1)
References (Tahoma 9) should be listed as
[1] H.J. Markowitsch (1995) Cerebral basis of consciousness: a historical view. Neuropsychol, 33(9):1181-92
or
[1] Infrasound. Brief Review of Toxicological Literature. (2001). 51 pages. ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/ htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Infrasound.pdf (last accessed March 6, 2007)
Acknowledgements where required should be given.
Receipt of funding for research should be specified.



Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a double blind process.
You may send papers in the form of an Acrobat pdf or MS Word file to Dr. R. S. Kshetrimayum (Email: krs@iitg.ernet.in), with a copy to: editor@ijbst.org indicating this special issue.